Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well she l she lived I think up on the hill above here . |
| 2 | Officers found him face down in the undergrowth minutes after his wife reported him missing on Wednesday night . |
| 3 | I told you move over to the other side a little bit , you 've got plenty of room at the bottom , start again what 's the , what letter are you doing ? |
| 4 | When the three girls arrived she was surprised to find that in spite of their sophistication they were not much older than she was and as she watched them glide out in the first selection of fashions she felt a small prickle of excitement . |
| 5 | I watched you make off along the cliff path , as if you were making for Otters ' Bay . |
| 6 | She pulled her loom out from the corner and put a stool in front of it . |
| 7 | Somehow , though , Leith 's sensitivity picked up a strained atmosphere as she pulled her glance back from the stocky man who had taken it into his head to start walking over . |
| 8 | He stood and watched her walk back to the house and then he went back to his work . |
| 9 | I watched her walk back down the steps , and the wind flipped her loose cardigan so that it became a swansdown shawl . |
| 10 | I ground my teeth as I watched her crawl back into the machinery . |
| 11 | The rain fell against his face as he watched her march out into the dusk , narrow shoulders pulled resolutely back as if she were someone who knew exactly where she was going and what she thought about things . |
| 12 | As she thrashed his bare arse with scorching strokes , she watched him ejaculate on to the floor . |
| 13 | She watched him go over to the coffee-machine hissing on a cabinet near one of the windows , saw him deftly take cups and saucers from a cupboard . |
| 14 | She watched him go back to the kitchen and when he had shut the living room door firmly , she sank down on the rug in front of the gas fire with her back propped against the armchair and sipped gloomily at the wine . |
| 15 | He just asked me if I knew where she was and then I watched him disappear out of the room . |
| 16 | Sabrina watched him disappear back into the booth . |
| 17 | With a bright flicker of satisfaction , she watched him slide down into the water , his large body making a flurry of waves ripple the surface . |
| 18 | As the cortege approached Uzerche on its way north , the chronicler Geoffrey and a few monks from the priory of Vigeois , standing on a hill , watched it go by on the road below . |
| 19 | Horowitz watched it turn on to the road and vanish . |
| 20 | So I had a er I got him set up for the morning jobs and then I did the afternoon jobs with him . |
| 21 | Mandy rushed over , and made her sit down on the couch . |
| 22 | I laid him further along on the pavement , under his broken and smashed shop front , which proclaimed his trade : Rabinowitz Tailors . |
| 23 | The boatman scampered across to the opposite gunwale , turned the boat , turned it again and set off on a long glide which took them close in along the bridge . |
| 24 | He became adept at launching himself over the canoe 's side ; first leaning back with legs outstretched athwart the cockpit , a quick flip of the body brought him face down towards the water before lowering himself onto it . |
| 25 | I was hanging on to the ledge at the deep end , arms out in the crucifix position when I saw her come out of the ladies ’ changing rooms wearing a yellow and white striped one-piece . |
| 26 | ‘ But not about the caves , ’ she laughed and , tugging at his arm , she insisted they tag on with the other tourists . |
| 27 | To play , we each choose one of our cards and lay it face down on the table . |
| 28 | ‘ Before leaving , Risdon tied up both men , left them face down in the bathroom , and fired a gun into the mattress , ’ claimed Mr Curtis . |
| 29 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 30 | The thief then bound his feet , wrists and mouth with tape and left him face down on the office floor before making off with the money in Barry 's car . |